Contributions to the pathology of the heart / [John Abercrombie].

  • John Abercrombie
Date:
1823
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Credit: Contributions to the pathology of the heart / [John Abercrombie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of any pain, and the breathing was natural; the pulse 120, and very small. By cold applications to the head, these symptoms subsided in a few days ; and she then gradually recovered her usual health, except that her pulse continued more frequent than natural. She continued well till the 20th of April (the same year), when, having been exposed to cold and fatigue, she was seized as before, but the pain was more towards the left side. It greatly impeded respiration, and was accompanied with great anxie¬ ty and restlessness. By large bleeding, blistering, &c., she was very much relieved; so that, on the 25th, hopes were entertained that she was out of danger. But she then became suddenly worse, with severe dyspnoea, great anxiety, vomiting, and rapid sinking of the vital powers ; and she died on the 26th. Dissection.—The pericardium adhered to the heart, through its whole extent, by means of a very thick layer of coagulable lymph, which was inter¬ posed between them. It was soft, and easily sepa¬ rated. There was a deposition of the same kind on the outer surface of the pericardium, in some places nearly half an inch in thickness. The sur¬ face of the heart was dark coloured, and very vascu¬ lar. The lungs were in some places inflamed and indurated. The other viscera were healthy. In the two following cases, the symptoms were less acute, and in both of them extremely obscure. A 2
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